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CHS Wrestling Squad Gleams — Continued from page 24


Zachary Bryant and Joshua again, from the West—another the MVAL All-Conference 2nd team,
Small, both freshmen, and testament to the tenacity that must to the Frederick News Post All-Area
senior Garrett Buckley each be possessed by Catoctin wrestlers to team as an honorable mention,
placed second. Buckley, a endure the competition of the region. and rounds out his first-year with a
four-time county finalist, lost The Cougars managed to notable 23-11 total.
to the future state champion in qualify six wrestlers for the state Brightshue also nabbed MVAL
the 3A-4A classification. Small tournament, including four finalists All-Conference honorable mention
won the annual award for and two regional champs. Garrett status with his 7-6 dual tally, 6-2
the quickest pin of the event, Buckley and Charlie Perella both go at Bauerlien, and 5-2 total at the
registering a 29 second fall. won titles, knocking off state- Catoctin Duals. Never one to give
Junior Payne Harrison, along ranked competition along the way. in, Brightshue frustrated top-rank
with freshmen R.J. Monaghan, wrestlers time and again and
Gage Randall, and Ethan Fuss, finished his first year with a 19-
each placed fourth. Randall 17 record against some of the
was unable to advance to the areas toughest athletes.
regional tournament in a solid As a big 182 pound
132 pound weight class. His freshman, Pittinger also faced
first high school season was Garrett Buckley, Third Place. tough competition, mostly
exemplary, however, with an juniors and seniors. He adapted
8-5 dual meet record, 3-4 showing advance while Rosenberry, who several clever techniques to deal
at Bauerlien, one win to his credit had two wins to his credit, would with opposing strength, winning
at the Hub Cup, and a 4-3 tab at not. Rosenberry, the 138 pounder, six regular dual matches, and
the Catoctin Duals. He received the would win seventeen matches in placing eighth at the Hub Cup.
Maryland Minds-in-Motion scholar- his first year, no easy feat in what He went 4-3 at Bauerlien and
athlete award for perfect 4.0 GPA was called the deepest weight class posted an unblemished 7-0 total
and ends his first year with a 18-16 this season, including six regular at the Catoctin Duals. Winning
overall record. dual victories, four at Bauerlien, a 60 percent of his contests, he
Monaghan could not muster Hub Cup win, and a 5-2 Catoctin ends with a 22-13 total.
the points needed to advance to Duals total. The Catoctin High School
regionals, but he concludes his For the second year, the Cougars Zachary Bryant, Fourth Place. wrestling program rounded
first year with a 50 percent win secured a fourth place finish at the out the top five team scores
record. Fifth place finishers included 1A-2A West regional championships Zachary Bryant and Kevin Simmel out of a field of ninety-nine 2A-1A
182 pound freshmen Dennis out of twenty teams. Considered by placed second, both losing in finals squads, dropping from a fourth
Pittinger and Hayden Spalding, many to be the toughest region in to undefeated opponents, and place finish the previous year. In the
also a freshman weighing in at 195 the state and with the stats to back Joshua Small and Payne Harrison last-ever event at the University of
pounds. Pittinger would advance to it up, the 1A-2A West had at least took fourth. Ethan Fuss, Nolan Maryland’s legendary Cole Field
regionals, but Spalding, who went one finalist in every weight class at Brightshue, and Dennis Pittinger, all House, Catoctin advanced four of
2-2, would not. He would, however, states. There were six weight classes, freshmen, failed to advance. Fuss, six wrestlers to the medal rounds
win thirteen matches in his first year where both finalists represented the weighing in a good ten pounds and crowned the high school’s
of high school, wrestling in a weight West, and a total of twenty wrestlers lighter than the weight class he seventh state wrestling champion
class that is not particularly kind to from the region going for a state title: represented, showed courage on (Shane Tiffany 1995, Seth Chilson
freshmen. Spalding, like Randall, 37 of 56, or 66 percent placed in the the mat. He was bold, aggressive, 2010, Tim Nordan and Charlie
also received the Maryland Minds- state tournament. To break it down and fearless, winning 70 percent Perella 2013, and Wayne Wivell and
in-Motion scholar-athlete award for further, two weight classes had all of his bouts. He went 8-3 in Charlie Perella 2014).
his 4.0 GPA. Nolan Brightshue and four semi-finalists representing the regular meets, 7-1 at Bauerlien,
Jarryd Rosenberry, also freshmen, West, four weights sported three of had a victory at the Hub Cup, and Read more about some of Catoctin’s
would finish in sixth place in their four semi-finalists, and seven weight only dropped two matches at the talented wrestlers’ achievements in the
respective weights. Brightshue would classes had half of the semi-finalists, Catoctin Duals. He was named to July issue of The Catoctin Banner.

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